Quotes About Consequence

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.

We would prefer having him to come here, but don't see how he could do it without exposing the whole thing.

As far as Archbold was concerned, Rockefeller was now in too deep to back out.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. Those who use it and those who endure it are turned to stone… a soul which has entered the province of force will not escape this except by a miracle.

you got one choice at the beginning, but if you didn't choose right..things got narrow real quick.

IF I'D GOTTEN THE JOB I WANTED at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois. I've often wondered at how lives are shaped by what seem like small and inconsequential events, how an apparently random turn in the road can lead you a long way from where you intended to go—and a long way from wherever you expected to go.

Soon after man shows up in new lands, the big game starts to go missing. […] A bad smell of extinction follows Home sapiens around the world. (37)

He thought back over the extraordinarily coincidental chain of events that had brought him here, at this particular time, and then left him marooned, so that he had no choice but to stay. With hindsight, it seemed as though it had all been carefully mapped out by fate.

Adán: ¡Dios mío! Eva: No lo llames. ¿Para qué lo quieres? Adán: Para pedirle que no nos castigue. Eva: ¿Qué más castigo quieres que esta vida ociosa sin perspectivas de progreso ni de cambio sin nada? Adán: Pero éramos tan felices... No nos faltaba nada. Eva: No deséabamos nada, que es distinto. Y no éramos felices. Éramos egoistas y cobardes. La categoría humana no se recibe; se conquista.

One mistake can cause everything or may I say someone special :-(

And, they would still be alive today...If they hadn't died, that is

You'll be beaten for this in the morning; but I may as well give you something on account now.

What happens when a sin is committed? Usually the sinner flourishes.

She could not take the words back—words never will come back—and she looked round for something she could do.

We've tried the other way; we've tried making both things and people It, and we've seen the results.

You got a choice, dude. We've all got choices. Lots of them. Every single second of the day we're making choices. You've just been making bad ones, is all.

everything happens because of your karma, which is a kind of subtle energy that you cause by the stuff you do or say or even just think

Was it possible people were heavier dead than alive?

Kui maailma valitses mõistus, kas siis ajalugu üldse olekski?

Better well hanged than ill wed.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

Consequently, for us light-minded and unstable human beings there is sheer fear and trembling in this thought of God's changelessness

Raskain rangaistus on nimenomaan muisto.